Our Protecting Vulnerable People Unit (PVP) exists to support the most vulnerable people in the Humberside Police area, and so naturally they’ve joined forces with our Op Shield teams to do just that.

The unit consists of several functions that lead on the core strands of vulnerability including:

- Adults and child safeguarding

- Child sexual exploitation

- Female genital mutilation and honour based abuse

- Force marriage

- Modern day slavery

- Management Of Sexual and Other Violent Offenders

- Police Online Investigations Team (POLIT)

- Serious sexual offences

PVP also deals with domestic abuse related cases if they relate to any sexual offences or child abduction incidents and will work with the Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Investigation Teams (DASIT).

The vulnerability hub supports LOCATE with their partnership working and information sharing with regards to missing persons, and although stalking and harassment is led again by DASIT, PVP will deal with any incidents of stranger stalking.

We’ve been speaking to Detectives who work within different areas in the unit to give us an insight into their work and where it comes from as part of #OpShield. This week, we caught up with Detective Chief Inspector Jim Clough who heads up the PVP core team who deal with the most serious cases of child abuse and sex offences.

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